The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1887-01-06
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

( lit cost eooo, 600 10 hsevest the Inn
menss cranberry crop around Cape Cod
l(Massac achusetts) this season.
i The culturelof tobacco in Germany
hs progressing, 1885, ,597sscres having
been planted this spring.
{! According to the report of the New
York Bureau Of Labor Statistics there
were more than 1900 strikes in that
State during 1886, against 800 in 1885.
1T Is estimated that SOC, 1000 head Of
mutton sheep have been driven from
Oregon this year to Wyoming and Ne
braska to be fattened for the spring
market.
The census Of the Island Of Cuba
shows 200 sugar plantations, 5000
tobacco plantations, 100 coffee planta-
tions, Is cocoa plantations, 5000 graz
ing farms, 10000 small farms, 10000
warehouses, factories, etc."
Persons who are undertaking to
raise carp in artificial ponds must be
careful to keep other kinds of fish rs
well as aquatic animals and turtles out
of them. During the past summer the
young carp in many places have been
destroyed by the above-named crea-
lures. Detroit Tribune.
The Territory Of Alberta, in the
Canadian northwest; contains, it Is COM
puted, 76, 325 cattle, 10,025 horses and
21,3OO sheep. Thus, at $40 per head,
IS, ,053, 900 is invested in cattle, $601, 500
in horses at $50 per head, and tS5, 200
in sheep at a per head. This is q very
good beginning, considering it is only
three or four years since the first at
tempt was made to establish ranches In
the territory.
According to the crop report issued
by the Department of Agriculture at
Washington, the largest yield per acre
of buckwheat during the past season
was in the New England States, where
as much as twenty bushels per acre was
obtained. Maine and Vermont each
produce as much as all the rest of the
New England States together. New
York and Pennsylvania grow two-thirds
of the product of the United States.
The entire crop for the country is H.
OOO, 900 bushels, and the average yield
per acre is thirteen bushels.
An idea of the extent of the milling
business at Minneapolis, Mimi, can be
got from the following extract, taken
from the Northeastern Miller, of No
vember 8: "The -four output touched
high figures last week, being the largest
for any single week of the year-157, ,270
barrels, averaging 26,2l1 barrels daily,
against 80, 500 barrels for the preceding
week, and 1850 barrels for the cor
responding time in 1885. The same
number of mills (nineteen) are in oper.
alton this week, and the product prom.
ises to reach as high point as las,
week. The daily output is fnlly 26,00(
barrels. Another 1,500 barrels will be
added to the active list next week"
Some sewing women have no knowl
edge of housework. Very we'll. Lei
them work for their board while they
learn. They would have plenty OF good
food and good home. They would be
better off than they are now when tn eli
$3.50 or $3 or 81 a week has to pay fol
their scanty food and fuel in wretched
rooms, and nothing is left. Good
housewives would willingly teach one
unaccustomed to work If she would re.
main for wages after she could earn
them. 1t seems to me this is the solu
ton of the question for women wht
barely make a living at sewing. --Lwc.
Stone, in Boston Globe.